Merriam-Webster's new words for 2014

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary added 150 new words for 2014, including "Yooper." Click through to get a definition for that and some of the other new additions. Sources: Associated Press, Time.com

relating to or being a system that caps the amount of carbon emissions a given company may produce but allows it to buy rights to produce additional emissions from a company that does not use the equivalent amount of its own allowance

a technology for digitally recording specific movements of a person (as an actor) and translating them into computer-animated images

PHOTO: Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey (left) instructs Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs during a motion capture session at the Electronic Arts studios July 29, 2008, in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Parker will be the cover athlete and spokesman for NBA LIVE 09, a video game produced by Electronic Arts.